This choice: Inside a certain shed (and who's that outside...?!) • Go Back... In a forest clearing at the edge of the village, a certain abandoned shed stood alone and disused. Sasuke was not sure what the structure original purpose had been, but it was dilapidated and empty now. It looked like the building had not been used in decades.
Perfect for Sasuke's purposes.
He arrived an hour before dusk, wearing his brand new forehead protector. The interior of the shed was empty, the air musty. Grime was thick on the windows.
People would not be able to see inside the shed, if they happened to come across it. And after casting a subtle, one-way sound dampening genjutsu on the premises, Sasuke was equally confident that no one would be able to hear anything inside it, either.
With that out of the way, Konoha's last loyal Uchiha produced a small scroll from his pocket. It was labeled in roman lettering, "FCRA-U1h".
Sasuke smiled idly, turning the scroll over in his hands. It had been a rather curious stroke of luck which led the boy to discovering a certain old, unused bylaw from around the time of Konoha's founding.
CRA was a widespread concept among shinobi, an old tradition among the feudal lords intended to keep clans with valuable hiden or kekkei genkai from dying out. The Clan Repopulation Articles had been frequently invoked by daimyo of various countries throughout the warring states era as a way to ensure that valued ninja clans would not die out for lack of new offspring.
Invocation of the CRA for a clan traditionally meant that the men of that family were legally permitted by the daimyo (and in many cases contractually obligated) to take multiple wives in order to maximize the rate of childbirths for that family. A man who carried a signed writ of consent from the daimyo was allowed to take any woman he desired as a concubine, so long as she was fertile and capable of bearing children.
Whether the woman in question consented to this was deemed irrelevant in those days. In some places it was still that way.
But the CRA was considered a relic of the past in modern shinobi villages. Changes in social mores, and shifts in the political climate, had rendered CRA obsolete. For various reasons, the great hidden villages generally outlawed such practices, and those who attempted to invoke CRA were usually treated to ridicule by the legally savvy.
The Clan Repopulation Articles were no longer considered legitimate among magistrates. Even members of near-extinct clans could no longer take numerous wives without facing a civil suit.
This was generally common knowledge.
Less commonly known, however, was that in Konoha's founding articles there actually remained a very specific set of provisions for the two founding clans. If either the Uchiha or Senju, as a result of external or internal strife, were reduced to a population less than ten percent of quorum (generally held as fifty clan shinobi active within the village) with reasonably low probability of recovering to an acceptable level of strength via standard measures, the highest ranking surviving male member of that clan would be permitted all the same privileges as outlined in the original Articles of Clan Repopulation.
This was the Founding Clan Restoration Act, intended to maintain a balance of power between the rival Senju and Uchiha families. Sasuke had already done his research to make sure this bylaw hadn't been amended or annulled in the decades since Konoha's founding, even going so far as to submit a tentative inquiry to the office of the Hokage a year back.
Lord Sandaime had replied (unusually promptly) that he would make provisions for a declaration of FCRA-U1h -- the section of the Village's founding articles which retained the right of the Uchiha clan in particular to declare an S-class priority Clan Restoration in the event of potential bloodline extinction.
The scroll in Sasuke's hands had been waiting for him in a secure envelope when he got home from the Academy, sealed tight with a jutsu formula keyed exclusively to his blood.
As the last loyal surviving Uchiha in the Hidden Leaf, Sasuke could legally take any woman he wanted within the boundaries of the Land of Fire (whether or not said woman was a citizen of Hi no kuni) and make her his concubine. There was no limit to how many he could take, nor any regulations on how he should treat or house them so long as it did not adversely affect the chances of a fetus being successfully carried to term.
The only real stipulations were that a prospective concubine had to sign the scroll in Sasuke's hands. Willingness on the woman's part was not explicitly mandatory, which said volumes considering the aptitude of sharingan-wielders for genjutsu compulsion.
Of course, in order to keep his concubines, Sasuke would be legally required to impregnate each one at least once every three years. Which made perfect sense, considering that the entire point of FCRA was to repopulate the founding clans in event of near extinction.
So, yes, Sasuke had plenty of reason to smile as he waited for Ino and Sakura to show up.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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